David Merriam
@trekker02.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Microbiology at a PUI. Giant dork.
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Trans rights are human rights
chat what do you think the odds are we can get a senator on bluesky to say trans rights
Hello (again) Bluesky! I’m going to start posting here again, because that other app has become a disaster.
But first, I want to introduce myself. My name is Tina Smith, and I’m a proud United States Senator for Minnesota… ⬇️
But first, I want to introduce myself. My name is Tina Smith, and I’m a proud United States Senator for Minnesota… ⬇️
November 1, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Trans rights are human rights
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Deskilling is real.
This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.
Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.
Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help
August 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Deskilling is real.
This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.
Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service.
Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.
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I advised him to do a @colbertlateshow.bsky.social go fuck yourself goodbye, but @davejorgenson.bsky.social is a classy guy. A big loss for the @washingtonpost.com and, yes, Bezos, who is too busy yukking it up on a gondola. Link to subscribe below
July 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I advised him to do a @colbertlateshow.bsky.social go fuck yourself goodbye, but @davejorgenson.bsky.social is a classy guy. A big loss for the @washingtonpost.com and, yes, Bezos, who is too busy yukking it up on a gondola. Link to subscribe below
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If you're still on Audible, you can abandon it with ease using OpenAudible.
It'll rip your audio books to an unencrypted format like MP3 and allow you to share it to any of your devices, no strings attached and no proprietary app required.
openaudible.org
It'll rip your audio books to an unencrypted format like MP3 and allow you to share it to any of your devices, no strings attached and no proprietary app required.
openaudible.org
May 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If you're still on Audible, you can abandon it with ease using OpenAudible.
It'll rip your audio books to an unencrypted format like MP3 and allow you to share it to any of your devices, no strings attached and no proprietary app required.
openaudible.org
It'll rip your audio books to an unencrypted format like MP3 and allow you to share it to any of your devices, no strings attached and no proprietary app required.
openaudible.org
I remember a few years back how Adam Conover had a whole bit about how we shouldn't worship any heroes because everyone is awful at some point or another. People would say, "the only person I trust is Adam Conover" and he said, "no, not even me."
A bit sad to see that exhibited so plainly now.
A bit sad to see that exhibited so plainly now.
May 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I remember a few years back how Adam Conover had a whole bit about how we shouldn't worship any heroes because everyone is awful at some point or another. People would say, "the only person I trust is Adam Conover" and he said, "no, not even me."
A bit sad to see that exhibited so plainly now.
A bit sad to see that exhibited so plainly now.
...AND MY AXE!
April 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
...AND MY AXE!
I'm only in the 25% because 1) I wouldn't leave my family and friends behind and 2) I'm not cool enough for anywhere I'd want to live to take me. ;)
We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I'm only in the 25% because 1) I wouldn't leave my family and friends behind and 2) I'm not cool enough for anywhere I'd want to live to take me. ;)
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We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reading this breaks my heart. I feel so sorrowful for that family who have been lied to for so long, who still believe in this nonsense, and who are mourning the death of their child while refusing to believe that there was a lifesaving preventative measure that likely could have saved her.
Parents Whose Unvaccinated Child Died From Measles Say They Remain Anti-Vaccine
“We would absolutely not take the MMR,” the mother said after her daughter became the nation's first death from the highly contagious, but preventable, disease in a decade.
www.huffpost.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Reading this breaks my heart. I feel so sorrowful for that family who have been lied to for so long, who still believe in this nonsense, and who are mourning the death of their child while refusing to believe that there was a lifesaving preventative measure that likely could have saved her.
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Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?
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My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
March 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?
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remember tonight to set your clock ahead an hour. but if canada and mexico set their clocks ahead an hour, then set your clocks back an hour. except for clocks in the automotive industry and clocks made with parts already covered under the USMCA, in which case
March 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
remember tonight to set your clock ahead an hour. but if canada and mexico set their clocks ahead an hour, then set your clocks back an hour. except for clocks in the automotive industry and clocks made with parts already covered under the USMCA, in which case
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I'm a microbiology professor at a teaching college, and so much of who I am was inspired by things like these, but also The Iron Giant, The Land Before Time (which literally got me asking "If creationism is real, when did the dinosaurs happen?), and Star Trek the Next Generation (Data was my fav).
Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.
February 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I'm a microbiology professor at a teaching college, and so much of who I am was inspired by things like these, but also The Iron Giant, The Land Before Time (which literally got me asking "If creationism is real, when did the dinosaurs happen?), and Star Trek the Next Generation (Data was my fav).
"Democracy dies in darkness" wasn't a warning. It was a promise.
Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit
Billionaire Jeff Bezos, who owns the Post, says the newspaper's editorial section will publish columns only "in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
www.npr.org
February 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"Democracy dies in darkness" wasn't a warning. It was a promise.
Pulmonary visit went really well. I'm not 100% but damn close. Don't have to follow up for a whole year.
January 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Pulmonary visit went really well. I'm not 100% but damn close. Don't have to follow up for a whole year.
My son is **wailing** in bed. Why, you ask?
Because of the sun.
He learned it's going to run out of fuel in 5 billion years.
Because of the sun.
He learned it's going to run out of fuel in 5 billion years.
January 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
My son is **wailing** in bed. Why, you ask?
Because of the sun.
He learned it's going to run out of fuel in 5 billion years.
Because of the sun.
He learned it's going to run out of fuel in 5 billion years.
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NIH Study Sections have been cancelled. These are groups of experts who get paid a pittance, if anything, to review research funding applications from their peers. The result of these reviews is to rank these research grants to decide which proposals get funded.
January 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
NIH Study Sections have been cancelled. These are groups of experts who get paid a pittance, if anything, to review research funding applications from their peers. The result of these reviews is to rank these research grants to decide which proposals get funded.
This is still week 1, and I'm so tired already.
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
www.science.org
January 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This is still week 1, and I'm so tired already.
Good news! Per latest xray my effusion is improving!
January 16, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Good news! Per latest xray my effusion is improving!
Really ready for a healthy household.
January 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Really ready for a healthy household.
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Something to keep in mind for 2025
Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction
Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction
January 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Something to keep in mind for 2025
Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction
Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction
Out of the hospital as of a few days ago. Pleural empyemas are no fun. I'm feeling mostly ok now aside from some pain where the chest tube was, and I feel winded very easily but in a resting position and breathing normally.
0/10 would not recommend getting this.
0/10 would not recommend getting this.
January 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Out of the hospital as of a few days ago. Pleural empyemas are no fun. I'm feeling mostly ok now aside from some pain where the chest tube was, and I feel winded very easily but in a resting position and breathing normally.
0/10 would not recommend getting this.
0/10 would not recommend getting this.
Been in the hospital for a week now. They're gonna drain the fluid from my left lung tomorrow, and hopefully that's the end of it.
I would ***really*** like to celebrate Christmas from home.
I would ***really*** like to celebrate Christmas from home.
December 23, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Been in the hospital for a week now. They're gonna drain the fluid from my left lung tomorrow, and hopefully that's the end of it.
I would ***really*** like to celebrate Christmas from home.
I would ***really*** like to celebrate Christmas from home.
You know you've been in the hospital for a long time when nearly every nurse on your floor knows you by name.
December 21, 2024 at 5:25 PM
You know you've been in the hospital for a long time when nearly every nurse on your floor knows you by name.
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Every single one of these articles is the same: Blame Democrats for capitulating to "progressive advocates," blithely note that no one in power has actually done that, then tell Democrats to do exactly what they're already doing.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
December 16, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Every single one of these articles is the same: Blame Democrats for capitulating to "progressive advocates," blithely note that no one in power has actually done that, then tell Democrats to do exactly what they're already doing.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...